Subject: Stockhausen press conference in Hamburg, Germany

Statement by Kathinka Pasveer to Jim Stonebraker
September 18, 2001 evening

Stockhausen is not yet at home.

I was at the press conference in Hamburg.

Being asked by journalist, if MICHAEL, EVE and LUCIFER were historical figures of the past, he answered that they were existing now.

For example, LUCIFER in the attack of New York.

After more questions about this he said "that for a musician it seems like rehearsing ten years for one concert and then killing oneself and 5000 people. The whole planning looked like the greatest piece of art of LUCIFER."

Naturally Stockhausen is shocked - like everybody else - by the horror of this terrible event and cannot understand it.

The journalist (for BILD) has completely twisted Stockhausen's words out of context and used it against the Hamburg Festival of New Music.

Kathinka Pasveer - Stockhausen-Verlag
Kürten, Germany

Stockhausen's comments during the Hamburg interview were delivered in the context of a metaphoric line of questioning. He provided an allegorical answer to an allegorical question.

Anyone who knows Stockhausen can tell you that he is a compassionate and thoughtful person. The journalist who spewed forth this unconscionable poison should immediately retract his untruthful reporting and publish an apology to Stockhausen.

I live in the US and we have suffered through this cowardly and hateful attack on our nation by terrorists. As a loyal and patriotic American, I can tell you that Karlheinz Stockhausen is not the kind of man to condone terrorism in ANY form.

On September 13 Kathinka Pasveer sent me a thoughtful fax from Karlheinz, Suzee Stephens (who is American) and herself that said "We all follow the tragedy in the USA and pray for you all. So terrible."

The reporter who wrote this rubbish for the sake of his own financial and professional gain should be condemned by the public for his sensational lies and promptly fired by his employer.

James Stonebraker, Webmaster
St. Louis, Missouri USA